Consequences are unpitying.
GEORGE ELIOTReligious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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